Academics, politicians, security experts and journalists, all use a variety of definitions of terrorism. Some definitions focus on the terrorist organizations’ mode of operation.. Others emphasize the motivations and characteristics of terrorism, the modus operandi of individual terrorists, etc.

In their book Political Terrorism, Schmidt and Youngman cited 109 different definitions of terrorism, which they obtained in a survey of leading academics in the field. From these definitions, the authors isolated the following recurring elements, in order of their statistical appearance in the definitions[1]:

1- The boundary between terrorism and other forms of political violence2- Whether government terrorism and resistance terrorism are part of the same phenomenon3- Separating “terrorism” from simple criminal acts, from open war between “consenting” groups, and from acts that clearly arise out of mental illness4- Is terrorism a sub-category of coercion? Violence? Power? Influence?5- Can terrorism be legitimate? What gains justify its use?6- The relationship between guerilla warfare and terrorism7- The relationship between crime and terrorism

Defining States’ Involvement in Terrorism

On the basis of this definition of terrorism and guerrilla warfare, how should we define the involvement of states in the peof terrorist attacks? Note that violent activities committed by a state against civilians are forbidden by international conventions and are clearly defined as “war crimes” (in the context of a war situation) and as “crimes against humanity” (in other situations).

Thus, whereas these definitions have led to the international delegitimation of the use of violence against civilians by military personnel and political leaders, a lacuna still exists concerning the use of violence against civilians by organizations or individuals on political grounds.

States can be involved in terrorism in various ways: from various levels of general support for terrorist organizations, through operational assistance, initiating or directing attacks, and up to the perpetration of terrorist attacks by official state agencies.

All forms of state involvement in terrorism are usually placed under the general category of “terrorist states,” or “state sponsored terrorism.” Such a designation has taken on the character of a political weapon; rival states ascribe it to one another, and terrorist organizations use it against states acting against them.

The question of state involvement in terrorist attacks has been extensively discussed in Countering State-Sponsored Terrorism (ICT Papers, No. 1).

There we suggest the following classification of states according to their level of involvement in terrorism:

“States operating terrorism” - states that initiate, direct and perform terrorist activities through groups outside their own institutions.

“States perpetrating terrorism” - states perpetrating terrorist acts abroad through their own official bodies–members of its security forces or its intelligence services, or their direct agents. In other words, states intentionally attacking civilians in other countries in order to achieve political aims without declaring war.[26] As mentioned above, according to international conventions, intentional acts of aggression against civilians by official agencies of a state, either at times of war or in occupied territories, will be considered war crimes rather than terrorism.

-- Why does a terrorist attack on the transport system in London that kills and injures dozens, draw utter condemnation and creates shock amongst us all, yet an attack by the Israeli military on a beach in Gaza killing and wounding dozens, including young children on a seaside outing, fails to register the same decibel levels?

Shouldn't we be equally as horrified and as shocked when innocent commuters and bystanders are killed in a horrific terrorist attack on a Madrid train, as we are when hundreds are slain in a US air-raid on a village celebrating a wedding in the Afghani mountains?Can we sincerely put our hands on our hearts and declare that we consider one life equally as sacred, and worthy of reverence and protection as another?

Bin Laden claims lead role in 9/11 attacksBin Laden est une autre histoire qui n'a pas de sens. Bin Laden etait un partenaire financier de la famille Bush dans le Groupe Carlyle, en plus d'etre sur la liste de paye de la CIA. Le plus tragique, c'est de voir nos stupides medias nous annoncer que Bin Laden a produit un nouveau video alors qu'il est mort en 2001 de causes naturelles, fait rapporte dans les medias a l'etranger, mais pas en amerique!Le faux-ennemi pratique qui permet de justifier la guerre contre le terrorisme et les guerres de domination autrement injustifiables devant les citoyens du monde.Remarquez aussi a chaque fois le timing des relachements des videos: toujours au moment ou Bush et la guerre contre le terrorisme sont au plus bas dans les sondages, ou pres des elections ou encore quand ils sont pris dans un scandale qu'ils veulent faire oublier. C'est constant, toujours au meilleur moment pour le gouvernement.10/16/2002: Israeli sources said Israel and the United States assess that Bin Laden probably died in the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan in December. They said the emergence of new messages by Bin Laden are probably fabrications, Middle East Newsline reported. [World Tribune] Yet another unconfirmed tape of Osama (this time audio-only) is being waved around to prop up the official story of 9-11. But the hard fact is that the real Osama died in December 2001 of natural causes. His death and funeral were reported in the foreign press, but not the US Mainstream Media, which then as now, supports the US Governments lies and deceptions. -M.Rivero WRH OSAMA: A 757 Hit the Pentagon!Just in time to stem the tide of ballooning public suspicion of the official story of 9/11 sparked by the newly released Pentagon tapes, the newly camera shy Osama bin Laden takes full responsibility for 9/11! Yes, an unconfirmed tape of bin Laden surfaced yesterday, AFTER the Moussaoui trial, to tell everyone that he was directly responsible for the events! That was very nice of bin Laden being that he would probably benefit greatly by having the public suspect the Bush administration of being responsible for the events.MSNBC VIDEO: Moussaoui wore 'stun belt' for new testimonyMais vous vous demandez pourquoi alors Zacarias Moussaoui a testifie devant la cour qu'il etait implique dans les attentats du 9-11, supportant la version officielle du 9-11?Regardez ce video de MSNBC, le reporter Pete Williams laisse entendre que Moussaoui portait une "Stun belt" sous ses vetements controle par les US Marshals. Evidemment, ca doit convaincre son homme de repeter ce qu'on lui a dit de dire que d'etre relie a une machine qui peut vous decharger une charge de 50 000 volt dans le corps pendant quelques secondes! (Pour en savoir plus sur ces ceintures speciales:Justices Strictly Limit Use of Stun Belts to Restrain Defendants)If you're looking for a reason why Zacarias Moussaoui suddenly testified today to a version of the 9/11 plotline that sounds more like the Official story than even the official Whitewash Commission report, this video may have the answer. In it, NBC news reporter Pete Williams lets slip that Moussaoui is wearing a "Stun belt" underneath his clothing controlled by US Marshals. MSNBC host Dan Abrams gets some more details on the stun belt.Moussaoui asks to withdraw guilty pleaALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - Convicted Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui says he lied on the witness stand about being involved in the Sept. 11, 2001, plot and wants to withdraw his guilty plea because he now believes he can get a fair trial from an American jury.

Terror Expert: 7/7 Mastermind was working for British Intelligence, Group was used by Brits in Kosovo in the late 90sMaintenant, examinez toutes ces revelations selon lesquelles les terroristes derriere les attaques a Londres sont en fait des gens qui sont connectes au services d'intelligence britanniques et americains.C'est importants que vous verifiez les sources de ces documents pour comprendre que c'est exactement ce qui se passe: les attaques terroristes qu'on a connu ces dernieres annees sont des fabrications de la CIA, MI5, MI6, FBI, Mossad, etc.Comprenez-vous les implications de ceci?The Dud Bombers of 21/7, the patsies, have all been rounded up along with 18 others currently under questioning, yet the so called "mastermind" is allowed to go free and is protected time and time again by MI5, MI6, FBI and CIA. The same thing happened in 93 with the WTC bombing, 95 with the OKC bombing, 01 with 911 and its happening again, its the same type of operation EVERYTIME. The July 29 edition of FOX News Channel's Day Side programme revealed that the so called mastermind of the 7/7 London Bombings, Haroon Rashid Aswat, is a British Intelligence Asset. Former Justice Dept. prosecutor and Terror expert John Loftus revealed that the so called Al-Muhajiroun group, based in London had formed during the Kosovo crisis, during which Fundamentalist Muslim Leaders (Or what is now referred to asAl Qaeda) were recruited by MI6 to fight in Kosovo.

Exaggerated misconceptions of worldwide terrorism to frighten us into supporting a global police state. The Bush administration is paltering to the American public with exaggerated misconceptions of worldwide terrorism to frighten us into supporting a global police state. With seven hundred military bases and a budget bigger than the rest of the world combined, the US military has become the new supreme-power force repressing "terrorism" everywhere.Operation Gladio: Template for the War on Terror - resumeOperation Gladio: Template for the War on Terror

Operation Gladio and the so-called “Strategy of Tension”. Unlike the majority of suspected false flag operations, it is extremely well documented and can therefore serve as a crash-course in the study of state-sponsored terrorism.As I will outline in the follow-up, there are extraordinary similarities between Gladio and the “War on Terra”, not the least of which is that many neocons – top policy makers who are now at the helm of battleship Amerika (Kissinger, for instance) – were actually involved in the conspiracy.Classified French DGSE intelligence report: Al Qaeda Training Camp passed from Control of CIA to Bin Laden in 1995Un rapport d'intelligence francaise classsifie DGSE qui raconte comment la CIA et le MI6 ont maintenu un control effectif d'un important camp d'entrainement de l'Al Qaida en Afghanistan jusqu'a au moins 1995. Ok? Besoin de faire un dessin?

L'Al Qaida est une creation de la CIA.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- WMR has obtained a confidential "France Only" report of the French intelligence service, Direction Generale de la Securite Exterieure (DGSE), that states that the CIA and Britain's MI-6 maintained effective control of an important Al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan as late as 1995, fully two years after the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, an attack that was launched with the help of Sudanese intelligence officers loyal to Osama Bin Laden. The CIA and MI6 permitted control of training operations at Darunta, an "Arab Afghan" base located near the camp of Osama Bin Laden and used to manufacture explosives and chemical weapons and train in their use, to pass to the control of Ibn Cheikh, a Libyan leader of Al Qaeda.

It may be a revelation to many people that the global drug trade is controlled and run by the intelligence agencies. In this global drug trade British intelligence reigns supreme. As intelligence insiders know MI5 and MI6 control many of the other intelligence agencies in the world (CIA, MOSSAD etc) in a vast web of intrigue and corruption that has its global power base in the city of London, the square mile.My name is James Casbolt and I worked for MI6 in 'black ops' cocaine trafficking with the IRA and MOSSAD in London and Brighton between 1995 and 1999. My father Peter Casbolt was also MI6 and worked with the CIA and mafia in Rome, trafficking cocaine into Britain. My experience was that the distinctions of all these groups became blurred until in the end we were all one international group working together for the same goals. We were puppets who had our strings pulled by global puppet masters based in the city of London.

"The connections piled up quickly. Contra planes flew north to the U.S., loaded with cocaine, then returned laden with cash. All under the protective umbrella of the United States Government. My informants were perfectly placed: one worked with the Contra pilots at their base, while another moved easily among the Salvadoran military officials who protected the resupply operation. They fed me the names of Contra pilots. Again and again, those names showed up in the DEA database as documented drug traffickers."When I pursued the case, my superiors quietly and firmly advised me to move on to other investigations."Former DEA Agent Celerino CastilloPowder Burns, 1992

MENA is no myth!

"If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched."-- George Bush, cited in the June, 1992 Sarah McClendon Newsletter

Narco News has obtained yet more evidence supporting the maze of charges in a leaked Justice Department memo that links DEA agents in Colombia to narco-traffickers. The memo, authored in late January 2004 by Justice Department attorney Thomas Kent, alleges that Drug Enforcement Administration agents on the front lines of the drug war in Colombia are on drug traffickers’ payrolls, engaged in money laundering and complicit in the murders of informants who knew too much about their nefarious activities.

This looks like an attempt to save face (see next story) by MI5. Meanwhile, if Khan were a real terrorist (as opposed to an informant working for MI5), and it was known he was discussing bombs, then why was he allowed to tour Parliament? -M.Rivero WRH

M15 INFILTRATED BY AL-QAEDAOkay, so here we have the London bombings taking place at the exact same time and exact same location as a terror exercise "simulating" a bombing attack, and now we find out that the bombers were working as informants for MI5? 'Infiltrated by Al Qaeda' my ASCII! These poor saps were asked to play terrorist for the drill, probably told their job was to sneak fake bombs past the security detail as part of the exercise, then given real bombs instead of fake ones. Because think about it for a minute. If these guys really were Al Qaeda and had really infiltrated MI5, don't you think Al Qaeda would want to keep them right where they were, inside MI5, not waste them in a single bombing attack? - M. Rivero WRH

Straussism is the philosophy of the obscure University Of Chicago philosophy instructor Leo Strauss.The students of Leo Strauss left the University in search of political power; these took root in the Republican party, formed neo-conservatism and became known as NeoconsStraussism calls for tyranny -- rule from those above. The purpose of this document is to present the principles of Straussism as a rosetta stone http://tinyurl.com/qo7yc to give one the knowledge to decipher and translate the rhetoric and behavior of the George Bush neocon administration into some degree of coherent meaning. Introduction: 1) A Straussian: a disciple of the philosopher Leo Strauss. 2) Leo Strauss (1899-1973) was a student of philosophy in Germany and watched the Weimar Republic dissolve into chaos and then into tyranny. As a Jew, he was forced to flee Germany and he eventually ended up at the University of Chicago, where he developed a cult following from some the brightest students.

For Strauss, the demise of the Weimar Republic represented a repudiation of liberal democracy. Liberalism, to Strauss, equals relativism, which necessarily leads to nihilism. Strauss longed to return to a previous, pre-liberal, pre-bourgeois era of blood and guts, of imperial domination, of authoritarian rule, of pure fascism.

These views resonated with Straussian disciples such as Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, William Kristol and Harry Jaffa. They took these ideas out of the classroom and translated them into actual political doctrine: the neoconservative manifesto of the Project for a New American Century. Straussian principles would be implemented on a global scale, and 9/11 provided the perfect pretext. Paul Wolfowitz, who attended Strauss's lectures on Plato, became the architect of the Iraq War, using hyped intelligence concerning WMD's as the "noble lie". The Bush Family and 9/11

Declassified US government documents, unearthed last October [2003] by investigative journalist John Buchanan at the New Hampshire Gazette, reveal that Prescott Bush's involvement in financing and arming the Nazis was more extensive than previously known. Not only was Bush managing director of the Union Banking Corporation, the American branch of Hitler's chief financier's banking network; but among the other companies where Bush was a director—and which were seized by the American government in 1942, under the Trading With the Enemy Act—were a shipping line which imported German spies; an energy company that supplied the Luftwaffe with high-ethyl fuel; and a steel company that employed Jewish slave labor from the Auschwitz concentration camp. [Online Journal] May 31, 2003. President Bush visits Auschwitz Mr Bush said the site "was a sobering reminder of the power of evil and the need for people to resist evil". [CNN] Halliburton wins concentration camp contractEt voila qu'un tres lucratif contrat de 385 million $US vient d'etre signe avec la tres criminelle compagnie d'Halliburton pour construire des camps de detentions a grande capacite aux USA. Tres contreverse du au contexte actuel de peur du terrorisme et de la volonte du gouvernement Bush d'instaurer la loi martiale et imprisonner de grandes quantites de gens juge "dangeureux" par le gouvernements criminel des USA.

Labor camps There also was another little-noticed item posted at the U.S. Army website, about the Pentagon's Civilian Inmate Labor Program. This program "provides Army policy and guidance for establishing civilian inmate labor programs and civilian prison camps on Army installations." The Army document, first drafted in 1997, underwent a "rapid action revision" on Jan. 14, 2005. The revision provides a "template for developing agreements" between the Army and corrections facilities for the use of civilian inmate labor on Army installations. On its face, the Army's labor program refers to inmates housed in federal, state and local jails. The Army also cites various federal laws that govern the use of civilian labor and provide for the establishment of prison camps in the United States, including a federal statute that authorizes the attorney general to "establish, equip, and maintain camps upon sites selected by him" and "make available … the services of United States prisoners" to various government departments, including the Department of Defense. Though the timing of the document's posting—within the past few weeks—may just be a coincidence, the reference to a "rapid action revision" and the KBR contract's contemplation of "rapid development of new programs" has raised eyebrows about why this sudden need for urgency. These developments also are drawing more attention now because of earlier Bush administration policies to involve the Pentagon in "counter-terrorism" operations inside the United States. Detention centers Plus, there was that curious development in January when the Army Corps of Engineers awarded Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root a $385 million contract to construct detention centers somewhere in the United States, to deal with "an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs," KBR said. [MarketWatch, Jan. 24] Later, the New York Times reported that "KBR would build the centers for the Homeland Security Department for an unexpected influx of immigrants, to house people in the event of a natural disaster or for new programs that require additional detention space."

Are the 17 Muslim men arrested in Toronto on June 3, 2006 innocent until proven guilty? Theoretically, yes. But practically, they are absolutely not.

Perceptions are more powerful than the reality. Much damage from these arrests has already been done, and it continues to mount. Opportunists among Muslims and extremists among non-Muslims are pushing their agendas harder than ever.

Can we hope that when, or if, any of them are proven guilty in a court of law, Canada's Muslims will not be found guilty by association? The answer, again, is absolutely not. We see with our own eyes what the mainstream media has been doing since the arrests. From the top of the political leadership to the editorial boards of most “mainstream” newspapers, everyone is simultaneously cementing the “us” and “them” mindset, and mainstreaming the rancid notions of “Islamism” and “Islamists.

The heads of Canadian agencies, led by Canada's ambassador to the U.S., will meet with American lawmakers in Washington Thursday to try to refute recent allegations that Canada has become a safe haven for terrorists.

Numerous nexus points have emerged that suggest major western governments are preparing for a summer terror attack that will come close to but not match 9/11 in scale and will provide the justification needed for an air strike on Iran before the midterm elections in early November.

While there is a danger of becoming the boy who cried wolf, disturbing trends over the last couple of months do strongly indicate that the twist in the tale, which is always to be expected in an election year, will be a staged attack on a major developed city or the soccer World Cup. Here are the red flags.

My Disclaimer:

I present this information in my capacity as a human being, under Common Law, exercising my fundamental God given rights and freedoms. This information represents my private thoughts and beliefs and has been compiled and expressed for educational purposes only. In no way should it be construed as either legal or financial advice. If anyone feels a need to determine the accuracy of this information and the effectiveness of apply any of it, I strongly recommend consulting a competent expert on this subject matter.

Here's a Clue:Look the one place "They" never talk about.Look to your heart, as your competent expert lies within."Seek and you shall find."